Calanthe biloba Lindley 1855 SECTION Calanthe Photo by © Wikia Encyclopedia

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Common Name The Two Lobed Calanthe [refers to the lip] - In China Er Lie Xia Ji Lan

Flower Size .8 to 1.4" [2 to 3.5 cm]

Found in southwestern China, Nepal, Sikkim, Burma and Thailand in thickets along streams at elevations of 1000 to 2800 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with stout, cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4, unequal, broadly elliptic, caudate-acuminate, undulate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, pubescent, 14.4" to 22.4" [36 to 57 cm] long, subdensely to densely many flowered inflorecence with lanceolate, acuminiate sheaths and linear-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Alismorchis biloba (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Calanthe biloba var. diptera Hook.f. 1890; Calanthe biloba var. obtusata C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f. 1874;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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